The
following inscription for a tombstone found in the old Ballon cemetery:

Here lieth the body of JAMES NOLAN

late of Kilgraney who departed

(RN: This Kilgraney is believed to be

the one close to the Ballyellin-Goresbridge
area,

and not the one towards Kildavin)

aged 86 yrs.

Here are
likewise deposited the

remains of
his son JAMES NOLAN of

Kilglaus
(RN: sic Kylemaglush)

who dep'd
May 12th 1821 aged 66 yrs.

And also
MARY daughter to the latter James

Nolan who
died young.

Also
PATRICK NOLAN brother [to the above

named]
James Nolan who died April 1812 aged 71 yrs

and MARY
wife to Patrick who dep'd April 1 1817

aged
71 yrs.

Here lie
the remains of MURTHA NOLAN, late of

Grenada,
son to the above PATRICK and MARY

(RN: Anna,
Note that "Murtha" is often rendered as Maurice in English.

This particular "Murtha"/Maurice lived for a
time on the spice island of Grenada in the West Indies and, at his death
in the early 1830s he had a business in Carlow town. In his
will he also mentioned a Thomas Brett who I believe was somehow related.

(there
is more to this inscription, including a Rev. James Nolan who served
Bagenalstown as PP and died in 1839)